Preview of the Graphic Novel CALCUTTA HORROR to be released in March 2019 (in Italian) and in April 2019 (in English).The first graphic novel based on the well known story 'Calcutta Lord of Nerves' by Poppy Z. Brite. Adaptation & Script by Alessandro Manzetti, illustrated by Stefano Cardoselli. Cover art by Wendy Saber Core.

The Horror Writers Association announced the 2018 Bram Stoker Awards® Final Ballot. We're happy to learn that the poetry collection ARTIFACTS by Bruce Boston has been nominated for Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection.It's our 5° nomination to this prestigious Award. Furthermore, the poetry collection WAR (Crystal Lake Publishing) by our Founder and CEO Alessandro Manzetti (written with Marge Simon) has been nominated for the same award category.The presentation of the Bram Stoker Awards® will occur during the 4th annual StokerCon, to be held at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The gala presentation will happen on Saturday night, May 11th.Official Announcement.

Cover reveal (artwork by Wendy Saber Core) of THE DEMETER DIARIES by Marge Simon and Bryan D. Dietrich, coming out in July 2019, kindle and paperback edition.'The Demeter Diaries' is a record of love and longing and the inevitable horror that arises between the minds of Mina Harker and Vlad Dracula as they court one another in waking dreams. The dialogue, written in both poetry and prose, imagines a psychic connection that develops between the two even before Dracula arrives in England. As Dracula makes his way from Transylvania to Whitby on the doomed ship Demeter, the two would-be lovers transmit their thoughts across the waves and lands that separate them, alternately wooing and terrifying one another with the idea of love eternal and all the dark delicacies necessary to ensure it.

"What a wonderful idea for a poetry collection! Bryan Dietrich and Marge Simon have collaborated on The Demeter Diaries, a conversation in poetry between Mina and Vlad from Bram Stoker's Dracula. Vlad's lines are suitably tight, classical, the use of enjambment tightly locking the lines together and emphasizing Vlad's considered choice of words--after all, he's had a few extra decades to think about them. Mina's lines are long and prose-like, evoking her enthusiastic romanticism with a kind of breathlessness. It's well-suited to her part in this dramatic dialogue, allowing her to show off her lady's education and quote from her reading (in this case segments of the poetry of Keats and Poe). Simon and Dietrich appropriately end the sequence with two poems in parallel, with short lines from each alternating down the page as the lovers call and respond. An impressive collaboration." --- Steve Rasnic Tem, Multiple Bram Stoker and International Horror Guild Author

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

MARGE SIMON lives in Ocala FL. She is a retired art teacher with an MA in Fine Arts and a minor in English Lit from the University of Northern Colorado. Her fiction and/or poetry has appeared in Asimov’s, Daily Science Fiction, Bete Noire, New Myths, and Polu Texni. Her works may be found in anthologies such as Tales of the Lake 5, Chiral Mad 4, You, Human and The Beauty of Death. Marge has won the Bram Stoker Award, the Rhysling, Elgin, Dwarf Stars and Strange Horizons Readers’ Awards; she serves on the HWA Board of Trustees, maintains a newsletter column, 'Blood & Spades'. Marge is the second woman to be acknowledged as a Grand Master Poet of the SFPA, and is on the board of the Speculative Literary Foundation. She attends the ICFA annually as a guest. Website

BRYAN D. DIETRICH is the author of seven books of poems and co-editor of an anthology of superhero poetry. He has published poems in Asimov’s, Weird Tales, Strange Horizons, The New Yorker, The Nation, Poetry, Ploughshares, The Paris Review, and many other journals. He has won the Asimov’s Reader’s Choice Award, The Paris Review Prize, a “Discovery”/The Nation Award, a Writers at Work Fellowship, and has been nominated for both the Pushcart and the Pulitzer. Former President of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, Bryan is Professor of English and Chair of the Division of Arts & Letters at Newman University in Wichita, Kansas. He is currently co-writing a book of science fiction poems with the author Steven Erikson. Website

Bram Stoker Award-Winning author Owl Goingback makes a triumphant return to horror and fantasy in this gripping new novel. Coyote is on a murderous hunt, leaving behind a trail of carnage. The shape-shifter is determined to kill the human representatives to the Great Council in Galun’lati, eliminating the rule of mankind in the New World. But Raven has overheard the Trickster’s evil plan, and will do anything to protect Luther Watie and his daughter, Sarah Reynolds, even if it means turning his skin inside out. The forces of evil are aligning in two very different worlds. Can mankind be saved, or will creatures of fur and fangs once again reign supreme? Cover art by Ben Baldwin. 260 pages

BEST ANTHOLOGYThe Black Room Manuscripts Volume 4 by J. R. Park and Tracy Fahey (Sinister Horror Company)Monsters of Any Kind by Alessandro Manzetti and Daniele Bonfanti (Independent Legions Publishing)Splatterpunk Forever by Jack Bantry and Kit Power (Splatterpunk zine)Welcome to the Show by Doug Murano and Matt Hayward (Crystal Lake Publishing)Year’s Best Hardcore Horror Volume 3 by Randy Chandler and Cheryl Mullenax (Red Room Press)​In addition to these nominees, publisher and author David G. Barnett will receive the J.F. Gonzalez Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the field. The nominees were selected by readers, fans, professionals and the jurors. The final ballot will be voted on by this year’s jury: Regina Garza-Mitchell, Gabino Iglesias, Tod Clark, Gerard Houarner, Jason Cavallaro, and Garrett Cook. The awards will be presented during a ceremony at the 2019 Killercon Convention, taking place August 16th through the 18th in Austin, Texas.